Berlin: British Cold War City, 1945-1994, PhD studentship

The Principal Investigator of the ‘British Military Bases in Germany’ project, Dr Grace Huxford, will be acting as a supervisor on an exciting new Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Studentship funded by the AHRC and in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum on “Berlin: British Cold War City, 1945-1994”. If you meet the relevant qualifications and are considering postgraduate study, see the details below. Deadline is Sunday 5th May.

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Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD at the
University of Bristol: ‘Berlin: British Cold War city, 1945-1994’. This is
offered under the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership programme. The
partner institutions are the University of Bristol and the Imperial War Museum
(IWM). The studentship will be supervised by Dr Grace Huxford and Professor
Josie McLellan at the University of Bristol and Sarah Paterson at IWM. This
full-time studentship, which is funded for three years at standard AHRC rates,
will begin in October 2019 (welcome week begins 23rd September 2019).

This project will research the British Forces in the city of
Berlin between 1945 and 1994. The former capital of Germany was probably the
most famous ‘flashpoint’ of the Cold War, where East and West met on a daily
basis. Its unique status as a divided city deep within Soviet-dominated
territory led to it being a hub for espionage and intelligence activities. West
Berlin was divided into three Sectors controlled by the Americans, British and
French, and each Power left its own legacy.

Much has been published on Berlin in the Cold War, but this
tends to concentrate on particular periods of crisis or dramatic events. This
project offers the opportunity to examine the British presence as a whole over
this period, and to analyse its legacy. How did the British interact with the
German community? How did they work with the Americans and French? And with the
Soviets? How important was Berlin for providing information that influenced
British political thought? What was the relationship between the British Forces
in Berlin and in the rest of Germany? What influence did a posting to Berlin
have on an individual? What were the social effects of German-British inter-marriage?
What role did language play in a quadripartite community?

Location: Department of History and Imperial War Museum
Eligibility: Home/EU
Start date: October 2019

Applicants should submit via email a curriculum vitae (no
more than 2 pages), a sample of writing, a brief letter outlining their
qualification for the studentship, transcripts of undergraduate and masters
qualifications, and two academic references to Dr Grace Huxford on grace.huxford@bristol.ac.uk.
Please note it is the responsibility of applicants to request references from
their referees and ensure that they have been received by Dr Grace Huxford by
the deadline below. All documents should be submitted in either a MS Word or
PDF format. Please ensure the subject line of your email appears as ‘surname,
first name – IWM/Bristol studentship.’